Testimonials

 

My experience with Reva surpassed my expectations. I moved into an interim role, and knew I would need to be intentional about how I approached the job. I didn’t want to burn myself or my team out!

Reva listened to and helped me clarify my goals for our engagement, she provided an array of tools, readings, and practices to explore. Our sessions were led by what I needed to work on, on any emerging issues, but Reva kept a clear thread back to my goals and back to our conversations.

This helped give shape to what I recognize now was a period of rapid personal and professional growth, and a transformed understanding of what a leader’s job is, how I can be the leader and manager I want to be, and how I can influence and guide the larger organization.

I would not be as aware of what I’ve learned without Reva, and I would not be as ready to continue this journey, if not for her excellent coaching! And the operational details are all on point; the record of our work together is part of what I’m taking with me.
— Gaylon Parsons, Interim Executive Director, Audubon California

I had the privilege of working with Reva twice, years apart, in two separate roles. Both times, she helped me identify my growing edges and set and achieve professional goals that made sense for me.

I loved how she brought a social justice lens to our work together. I was able to trust her as a coach, completely, and in turn she was able to help me step more fully into my voice as a leader.
— Lauren Pongan, National Director, Diverse Elders Coalition

Reva was a truly supportive coach who demonstrated patience, kindness, and understanding in helping me navigate leadership challenges in my career. She helped me cultivate more authenticity and courage in social justice and nonprofit work and address challenges with uncertainty, imposter syndrome, and the heaviness that often comes with fighting for equity. I appreciated how Reva identified specific actions and practices for me to try and progressed at a pace that worked for me. After working with Reva, I now have meaningful tools to better reflect and grow as a leader.
— Mandy Diec, Director of California Southeast Asia Resource Action Center

Reva changed my life.

She was my coach from June - Dec 2020 and I didn’t know she was the person I needed in my life for the last 10 years. She is deeply curious and engaged as a coach, and master of her craft in the way she gets you to find answers within yourself. I had a major personal breakthrough during my time with her, which directly resulted in a promotion and exponential professional growth in 2021.

To up level my career, I had to start thinking of myself as someone capable of doing a lot more and Reva helped me see that. She helped me uncover the most fundamental truths about myself and made me see the light in myself. She stayed with me as I was flailing to understand what I wanted and what was important to me and guided me to see my own capabilities and potential and worth. She helped me see myself as a whole person and helped me remove a lot of my ‘head trash’.

I would not be the person I am today, personally and professionally, if it had not been for those 6 months I spent going through coaching with Reva. I cannot recommend her enough as a coach and hope she gets to share her gift with as many people as possible.
— Anisha Sagar, Torch Experience Manager

I sought out coaching during a big year of transition for my organization, as well as myself as a leader. I wanted a greater sense of confidence in clarifying our priorities and commitments, and leading our team towards our long term vision. Reva got to the core of the critical area of work very quickly, and guided me towards a much deeper experience of self discovery than I’d expected. She had a variety of tools to support me at many levels, and by working with her, I tapped into my own ability to transform my own leadership. And I now have more inner resources to help guide myself through difficult situations.
— Erin Rhoades, Executive Director, Berkeley Public Schools Fund

Reva was a guiding light during a time of uncertainty and transition in my career. She helped me navigate particular organizational changes and taught me how to embrace my managerial and leadership role in a way that felt authentic for me as an AAPI woman. In our sessions, I felt understood and fully met, as well as a sense of relief and clarity about how to approach specific challenges and situations. She truly helped me figure out my passions, learn more about my strengths, and feel clear and confident in the choices I made. She’s an outstanding coach, and I enthusiastically recommend her!
— Courtney Chappell, Advocacy Director, Legal Voice

Reva taught me a new and more compassionate way of relating to myself, which essentially deepened my ability to coach myself. This has been profoundly empowering. For instance, I have felt more grounded and resilient in the face of uncertainty and adversity, and more open to and able to act on new possibilities as they emerge.
— Renato Almanzor, Leadership Studies Faculty, Humbolt State University

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with Reva as a coach during a challenging time. Although I typically tried to work things out on my own, I couldn’t figure out the right path forward in my career - I felt trapped by external constraints and lost in my own head....

Throughout our sessions, Reva was incredibly thoughtful, patient, insightful, and understanding. She met me where I was... and accommodated my personal preferences and learning styles. She was an amazing guide and teacher of important self-reflection skills that I had never developed.

I was also impressed by Reva’s passion for and eagerness to evolve as a coach.... I highly recommend Reva to anyone looking for a coach!
— Anand Subramaniam, Managing Director, PolicyLink

Working with Reva has been fantastic. A coach can offer insights that shake up your thinking in valuable and refreshing ways that re-energize your creative problem-solving. Reva has done this masterfully and I have come away from several discussions simultaneously unburdened and inspired.

...When all is said and done, I have made subtle but important changes in my approach to listening in some key conversations and I have been more willful and deliberate in some of my approach to delegation. What’s more, I have shared elements of her advice that I found very valuable with other folks on our staff.
— Peter T. Ferenbach, Co-Founder of Rethink Media

I have really benefitted from working with Reva. She helped me with the career-related questions I came to her with, as well as some long-term work that has helped not just in my career, but in many areas of my life.

She’s an excellent listener and really models a lot of the qualities that she coaches people to move towards, like being present and bringing your authentic self to work you care about. She uses a mix of concrete tools and books with a lot of questions, discussion, and self-reflection to help me address some timely issues, as well as the bigger picture question of how to bring my full potential into my work and life.

For instance, after four pretty intense years of school, she’s been able to help me find ways to re-envision and create a life that is a little less busy and stressful, while also contributing in areas of social justice and public health — and actually being more effective in doing so by being more intentional.

I’ve already recommended Reva to friends. She was really honest with me in our first meeting and stressed that if we didn’t seem like a good fit, she wanted me to feel comfortable moving onto other options because there wasn’t any sense in me working with her if it wasn’t the right fit. Luckily for me it was, but it was also really nice to be able to explore options of working with her without feeling pressured.
— Kathi Schaff, Health Equity Coordinator